“As a result of the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, I cease my activities as president of the USSR “, this was the last speech of a Soviet president.
One Mikhail Gorvachov More than resigned, he ends 74 years of Soviet history. That night there is a change of flag in the Kremlin, which symbolizes the end of the Soviet Union.
Gorvachev comes to power with the idea of modernizing the country’s economy and politics. Two key terms: ‘Perestroika’ and ‘Glasnot’. If on the outside Gorbachev ends the Cold War, on the inside his reforms provoke the reluctance of conservatives and the disenchantment of progressives.
The nuclear accident of Chernobyl It is his first major crisis and it shows that the regime was much weaker than Gorbachev believed.
The coup de grace comes on August 19, 1991, a Boris Yeltsin In a suit for the occasion, he approaches his troops and holds his fist high and stops the coup, but calls for civil disobedience.
He knows that his victory is very close and he does not hide the flag he defends, they even allow themselves the luxury of interrupting the president in Parliament.
Yeltsin becomes the great winner of the defeat of the coup. Shortly after, along with others secessionist leaders, declare ‘death to the USSR’.
Ukraine declares independence unleashing a chain of abandonments among other Soviet republics. At 90 years old, today Gorbachev, in his memoirs, is clear that he always tried to be true to himself: resigned to avoid a bloodbath, although for weeks it was just an authority that no one obeyed.
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